Rebellious Daughters of History #45 by ,,Judy Cox The Uprising of the 20,000 On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Workers shared common grievances about wages, hours, workplace safety, and workplace indignities suffered […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #44 by Judy Cox Inspired by the Tower Hamlets Unison Strike: The Chocolate Women’s Strike Clementina Black, secretary of the ‘Women’s Trade Union League’, organised a meeting for the young women working at Messrs Allen’s chocolate factory on 10 July 1890: “Twelve girls came, and their dread of being followed, watched […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #43 by ,,Judy Cox The French Revolution: Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817) Théroigne was born in Marcourt, Rendeux. Her mother died after giving birth to her so she was sent to live with her aunt in Liége. She left after being forced to work as a servant. Théroigne spent years as an […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #42 by ,,Judy Cox Black America Rising: Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896 – 1977) Lola Shirley Graham Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1896, one of six children. Her father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister. In June 1915, Shirley graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington. […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #41 by Glyn Robbins (guest contribution) and ,,Judy Cox Shirley Chisholm (1924 – 2005) Shirley Chisholm was a trail-blazer for insurgent US politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She was the first black woman elected to Congress, returned by the people of her native working class Brooklyn neighbourhood in 1968. Four years later, […]